GET TO KNOW: POLYPHIA, TEXAN SMART-ASSES SERVING UP INSTRUMENTAL SHRED, IDGAF ATTITUDE
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Welcome to the world of Polyphia, a band of unrepentant smart-asses who take their ever-evolving brand of genre-blurring, technically demanding instrumental shred extremely seriously — and almost nothing else, their own image and stage presence included. “My days of just standing onstage and playing the notes are over,” says LePage. “I want to go up there and rock my socks off, and everyone else’s.”
Onstage as well as off, LePage and his bandmates’ defiantly cheeky attitude extends to sporting the sort of flashy streetwear that veers between the highly fashionable and the deeply absurd. “I’m going through this phase where I’ll just wear [any] kind of ridiculous thing I want,” says LePage. “I’ll, like, walk into an Urban Outfitters, and if I see a big pink shirt with green letters on it that says, ‘I’M AN ASSHOLE,’ I will fucking buy it and wear that shit every single day for an entire tour. And Tim is super into designer shit, so he’ll ball out on Gucci …
“We certainly like to stir the pot with our bullshittery,” LePage laughs. “I’ll just sit there with Tim, and we’ll come up with bullshit to do. He’ll be like, ‘We should totally post this.’ And I’ll be like, ‘Yeah! And while we’re at it, we should say this, too.’ We’ll just go off of each other’s ideas, and by the end of it, we’ll have the most ridiculous thing we’ve ever done. A hundred people will unfollow us because of a post, and then another 500 will follow us because our ridiculous post made it to the Explore feed on Instagram. So if we lose a hundred fans, we’re probably gaining quite a few more, just because we’re being ourselves.”
